Current Projects
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EdWeek Highlights CI Parental Choice Research
Click here to read the article on new teachers in New Orleans’ schools.
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Report says New Orleans parents need better information for school choice to work
Click here to read an article in The Advocate about our recent Spotlight on Choice report.
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Spotlight on Choice: Parent Opinions on School Selection in New Orleans
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2012 ACT Scores show large gains for some RSD charter schools
Click here to read NOLA by the Numbers: ACT Scores, Class of 2012.
Research Archive
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The State of Public Education in New Orleans: 2012 Report
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Is Louisiana’s Recovery School District a Model for Other States?
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute draws lessons for Ohio in this new report.
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Rethinking Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century
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Charter-School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts
New report looks at CMOs around the country, including in New Orleans.
Expanded Measures of School Performance
RAND Education
April 2011
Abstract:
The RAND Corporation released this report which addresses questions regarding expanded measures of school quality to reflect the multiple goals of schooling. It describes categories of measures that research indicates are the most rapidly growing in usage by state and local education agencies. It also describes promising directions for expanding the set of measures that schools have at their disposal while acknowledging the need for more research on how the availability of such measures affects educational practice and student achievement.